ok lets see what your project was BEFORE

[primate]

i see everyones beautiful bad ass cars here, and i was just wondering, what did they look like before?
dirtpoor and i just started on my 70 rs, and its gnarly, to say the least.

so lets see the beasts before they became the beauties. horror storys/hidden nightmares, lets see the dirt. i will post some pics of mine as soon as i get my cardomain setup started.hopefully this weekend.

i love to look at the books at car shows that show the work involved, so lets have them. :pics2:

[ProdigyCustoms]

OK, See the rest at http://prodigycustoms.com/mikes-prodigy.asp

[JLM]

damn Frank, I didn't realize your project was such a basket case. The turnaround is incredible!

[shmoov69]

:jawdrop: WOW FRANK!! THAT IS A PROJECT!!! Here is my hooptie before and during!

[Bill Howell]

Frank aint all that, check out my before and after-LOL

Just Kidding, we are still waiting on the "after".

Many more of the "during" over at Frank's site too.http://www.prodigycustoms.com/Billsgto.asp

[DarkBuddha]

Where we started in 2001 (or more accurately, how bad it had gotten after driving the living crap out if it daily for 6 years and then letting it sit outside in Tampa for 6 more years :banghead: ) :

https://static1.pt-content.com/images/noimg.gif (http://img260.imageshack.us/my.php?image=collage7ez.jpg)

Currently (and still not done 4 years later... :banghead: ):

https://static1.pt-content.com/images/noimg.gif (http://img225.imageshack.us/my.php?image=13resized4xg.jpg)

[Martin71RS]

before:
https://static1.pt-content.com/images/pt/2005/07/camaro01-1.jpg


after:

https://static1.pt-content.com/images/pt/2005/03/camaro168-1.jpg

after 2nd rebuild: ?????

just starting....so be patient...

more on www.pro-touring.nl (http://www.pro-touring.nl)

Martin

[JJSmitches]

My before picture was during the time my Chevelle was my primary transportation. The after is current as of today actually. I'm working on a AFTER AFTER when its drivable again.
EDIT:(2 THINGS)

1 - sorry the bitmap doesnt show a thumbnail, Im not crafty enough to fix it.

2 - I had to white out part of the picture due to content of a "frank and mature nature." :P

[69rs]

due to content of a "frank and mature nature."
Frank does not have a "mature nature"!!:rotfl:

[Blue70]

Wow!

AT least I now know I am not the only one that starts with a pile :rotfl:

I don't have much to show, the trailer dumped it into my tiny one car garage so I couldn't back up far enough to get any side shots :candle:

Here are my before photos..

https://static1.pt-content.com/images/noimg.gif
https://static1.pt-content.com/images/noimg.gif

[primate]

frank, your my hero. :hail:
michael has done an amazing amount of work. :cheers:

[CAMAROBOY69]

OH this will be an awesome thread. These are my favorite kind of pics when you see what people did before and after. I have a few pics.
SOme of these pics still arent updated yet like the interior. Now I have 5" Autometer gauges stuffed into the original dash cluster. Also clear tail lights.
https://static1.pt-content.com/images/noimg.gif
https://static1.pt-content.com/images/noimg.gif
https://static1.pt-content.com/images/noimg.gif
https://static1.pt-content.com/images/noimg.gif
Those will do for now. Remember, some of these still arent updated all the way yet. :)

[kennyd]

my 61 in process , since these we have removed that frame and are trying to get art morrision to call us back with a price for a new one !

[kennyd]

sorry for the " poser "wheels

[69boo307]

I was lucky, I actually started with a very solid rust free car. I have yet to do any body work or painting on it in the 15 years I've had it. The paint job is around 25 years old. Except for adding buckets and a floor shifter, it has the original interior right down to the carpet and even the cardboard rear package tray. Still sports the factory bumpers, emblems and trim, even the weatherstripping. Apparently the original owner kept it garaged all its life, although he lived down a dirt road and the car was covered with red mud when my dad and I picked it up, back when I was 15. If the guy had just washed and detailed the car he could have sold it for twice what he did. After a good detailing and replacing a few worn out parts, I took it to local car shows when I was in high school.

I=Except for the wheels and stance it still looks the same now, but there's not a single mechanical piece on the car that is still original :)

before:
https://static1.pt-content.com/images/noimg.gif

after:
https://static1.pt-content.com/images/noimg.gif

[wantahertzdonut]

See my sig picture, that's how I got it. It's solid, maybe one tiny spot of rust and it's not going anywhere. The chrome and trim all need to be redone or replaced but that'll come in time.

[jy211]

Here's mine before...and during....

will have some shots of it finished in the next month...

[Rick Dorion]

Great pics.
https://static1.pt-content.com/images/noimg.gif

https://static1.pt-content.com/images/noimg.gif

[TA219]

Before
https://static1.pt-content.com/images/noimg.gif
https://static1.pt-content.com/images/noimg.gif

During
https://static1.pt-content.com/images/noimg.gif
https://static1.pt-content.com/images/noimg.gif

The body work is coming along farther every day. I am waiting on the full trunk floor to come off of backorder and then I will be able to really put it together

[Steve1968LS2]

Before:
https://static1.pt-content.com/images/noimg.gif

After:
https://static1.pt-content.com/images/noimg.gif

Before:
https://static1.pt-content.com/images/noimg.gif

After:
?

[Streetking]

Before:
https://static1.pt-content.com/images/pt/2005/05/orig-5.jpg
https://static1.pt-content.com/images/pt/2005/07/orig-7.jpg
After:
https://static1.pt-content.com/images/pt/2005/07/orig-8.jpg
https://static1.pt-content.com/images/pt/2005/07/orig-9.jpg

[Jagarang]

These are the oldest postable pics I have. I have some "roids"(Polaroids) at home that I might try to scan in after work.

These pictures, believe it or not, are after a few years of body/paint shop purgatory. You can see that even at this stage it's got a guide coat and lots of body works been done done.....
https://static1.pt-content.com/images/noimg.gif
https://static1.pt-content.com/images/noimg.gif

I guess the best looking after photo I've got is this one, so far......
https://static1.pt-content.com/images/noimg.gif

These photos span about....hmmmm....6 years!

[CAMAROBOY69]

Come on Kevin!! Push that thing out in the sun and get a really really good pic and quit teasing us! :wedgie:

[rb70383]

Great pics all, I can see me looking to this thread when I start getting discouraged.:kewlpics: :bananna2:

[JoshStratton]

sorry for the " poser "wheels

Not sure what you mean by that! Those are incredibly cool on that car!

[CAMAROBOY69]

I agree I thought they looked great!!

[Overkill]

Before:

https://static1.pt-content.com/images/pt/2005/07/camaro_front-1.jpg

https://static1.pt-content.com/images/pt/2005/07/camaro_seat-1.jpg

During:

https://static1.pt-content.com/images/pt/2005/07/camaro_rebuild044-1.jpg

https://static1.pt-content.com/images/pt/2005/07/camaro_rebuild105-1.jpg

During During:

https://static1.pt-content.com/images/pt/2005/07/camaro_rebuild655-1.jpg

https://static1.pt-content.com/images/pt/2005/07/camaro_rebuild660-1.jpg

[Red73]

before:

https://static1.pt-content.com/images/noimg.gif

https://static1.pt-content.com/images/noimg.gif

After:
https://static1.pt-content.com/images/noimg.gif
https://static1.pt-content.com/images/noimg.gif

[KacyZ28]

http://www.cardomain.com/ride/476666

[race-rodz-inc]

this is as close as i have to "before" pics... i started out with a set of doors, then a roof, found a cowl, and finally the back of the cab for my 34 truck. the rest is scratch built.

[ProdigyCustoms]

Very impressive Race Rods.

[shmoov69]

OOHHHH......That is going to be wicked!!!! Got any renderings of the pickskumup!?!? More info please!! :1st:

[race-rodz-inc]

sure.... its a 34 ford truck, the cab anyway. the chassis is "unique" in a few ways... it uses 2x3 main rails, with another set of inner rails from the firewall back, everything is tied together with 1 5/8" full cage, w/ integrated f. suspension points. the front suspension is made up of dropped spindles, C5 rotors/calipers, 1 3/8 dom upper and lower arms, mustang II style rack, all of it was designed & optimised using performance trends software.... along with some help from a few suspension gurus from the boards. the rear suspension is inboard brake jag set up, with a few mods to help it out. the cab/doors are vintage steel, the bedsides and hood will be aluminium, the grill shell is a chopped 32, which will be bare carbon fiber. the wheels/tires are 18x9.5 Z06 wheels with 285/40/18 G-force kd's...these will be hangin out in the wind....cuz real hot rods dont have fenders. engine will be a sbc, small journal ultralight billet callies crank, ultralight rods/pistons, afr heads, 358".... 9000rpm (the rest of the details are still "top secret":ssst: ) trans is still unknown, other than it will be manual. interior features custom built seats, with comfort and leg room in mind... the rest of the interior is strictly business.

this is being built as an "anti-streetrod", no chrome, no bling, no polished nothin... anything billet will be brushed. the only shiny paint and powdercoating will be on the chassis.... the steel body parts will be black primer, the rest will be natural aluminium & carbon fiber.

im a poor white boy, so this project is being built on a scrimp and scrounge budget, everything on it has been designed & fabbed by me, it will see regular track duty, along with "daily" street duty.... as my shop truck, until i decide to sell it to finance other projects on the waiting list (cobra kit car, awd 33 chevy 3 window coupe, 66 gto, 65 mustang) the truck was meant to be the ulimate racecar/hotrod blend... "racerod".... yet being built without spending billions of dollars on hightech exotic parts. frank from rpm drag racing is also building a racerod, and we have allready have a lil challenge in the works... so stay tuned, it should be a part of the members page over at lateral-g pretty soon.... so you will get to see a lot more pics of it there.

[bnickel]

Great pics.
https://static1.pt-content.com/images/noimg.gif

https://static1.pt-content.com/images/noimg.gif


is that a mouse i see on the diff?

[Travis B]

Not sure what you mean by that! Those are incredibly cool on that car!

He was talkin about the size 19's 22's.....vehicles with wheels bigger than 18's have been reffered to as "POSERS"

[vanzuuk1]

Race rodz
That is such a cool car, I cant wait to see it done. My favorite builds are based on pairing two unlikely cars and blending them.That car looks like a can am racer mated with a 32 ford and that is their evil offspring. I hope that made sense.

[indyjps]

i knew you guys would love the wheels, space saver spares are great for rolling around on and working around. gutting original a/c interior now. body is pretty solid, floors, trunk and front of doors starting to pinhole, it got quarters in 91 before i bought it. the joker who owned this car before me had a habit of using exactly half the number of bolts that were originally used. owned it for 14 years, been out of comission since '96.

[MoeBawlz]

The start of the project....

https://static1.pt-content.com/images/noimg.gif

5 years of working on the project and putting the money here...

https://static1.pt-content.com/images/pt/2005/07/toilet-1.jpg


Wishing it were done...

[CAMAROBOY69]

this is as close as i have to "before" pics... i started out with a set of doors, then a roof, found a cowl, and finally the back of the cab for my 34 truck. the rest is scratch built.
Thats going to be awesome!!! 1934 pro-touring inspired truck! Some in here still dont think trucks are pro-touring but I sure do if they are built like this.

[Rick Dorion]

Looks like one, doesn't it! It's a bracket.

[kmcanally]

sure.... its a 34 ford truck, the cab anyway. the chassis is "unique" in a few ways... it uses 2x3 main rails, with another set of inner rails from the firewall back, everything is tied together with 1 5/8" full cage, w/ integrated f. suspension points. the front suspension is made up of dropped spindles, C5 rotors/calipers, 1 3/8 dom upper and lower arms, mustang II style rack, all of it was designed & optimised using performance trends software.... along with some help from a few suspension gurus from the boards. the rear suspension is inboard brake jag set up, with a few mods to help it out. the cab/doors are vintage steel, the bedsides and hood will be aluminium, the grill shell is a chopped 32, which will be bare carbon fiber. the wheels/tires are 18x9.5 Z06 wheels with 285/40/18 G-force kd's...these will be hangin out in the wind....cuz real hot rods dont have fenders. engine will be a sbc, small journal ultralight billet callies crank, ultralight rods/pistons, afr heads, 358".... 9000rpm (the rest of the details are still "top secret":ssst: ) trans is still unknown, other than it will be manual. interior features custom built seats, with comfort and leg room in mind... the rest of the interior is strictly business.

this is being built as an "anti-streetrod", no chrome, no bling, no polished nothin... anything billet will be brushed. the only shiny paint and powdercoating will be on the chassis.... the steel body parts will be black primer, the rest will be natural aluminium & carbon fiber.

im a poor white boy, so this project is being built on a scrimp and scrounge budget, everything on it has been designed & fabbed by me, it will see regular track duty, along with "daily" street duty.... as my shop truck, until i decide to sell it to finance other projects on the waiting list (cobra kit car, awd 33 chevy 3 window coupe, 66 gto, 65 mustang) the truck was meant to be the ulimate racecar/hotrod blend... "racerod".... yet being built without spending billions of dollars on hightech exotic parts. frank from rpm drag racing is also building a racerod, and we have allready have a lil challenge in the works... so stay tuned, it should be a part of the members page over at lateral-g pretty soon.... so you will get to see a lot more pics of it there.


Dayuum....that is going to be sweet! Can you post a link to more pics? I should would like to follow the progress of this project.

[bnickel]

my eyes suck these days. too much computer work i guess

[FoxGranadaChuck]

I hope to have some pics of my ride as soon as I can secure a digital camera with Macintosh-compatible drivers.

[dropit69]

steve im torn ..i am huge yellow fan ..but love that blue silver combo ..awesome car!!!

[Jagarang]

The start of the project....

https://static1.pt-content.com/images/noimg.gif

5 years of working on the project and putting the money here...

https://static1.pt-content.com/images/pt/2005/07/toilet-1.jpg


Wishing it were done...


:lmao: :lmao: :lmao: :lmao: :lmao: :lmao: :lmao: :lmao: :lmao:

[Piet]

This is my 20 footer....
https://static1.pt-content.com/images/noimg.gif

https://static1.pt-content.com/images/noimg.gif

I need to redo the rear frame rails, and the bottom 6" of the entire car due to rust.... (But it looks nice from far away...)

[formula]

before...(check the dealership tag :D)
https://static1.pt-content.com/images/noimg.gif

a year and double the initial investment later...

https://static1.pt-content.com/images/noimg.gif

the only exterior clue to any change is the exhaust tips...which no longer look like crap...

[GT350Clone]

Here's the before: :sad4:
https://static1.pt-content.com/images/noimg.gif
https://static1.pt-content.com/images/noimg.gif
https://static1.pt-content.com/images/noimg.gif

A couple "during": :dunno:
https://static1.pt-content.com/images/noimg.gif
https://static1.pt-content.com/images/noimg.gif
https://static1.pt-content.com/images/noimg.gif
Anything silver is original, anything black, replacement (yes, I had a decent roof & trunklid, that's all)
https://static1.pt-content.com/images/noimg.gif
https://static1.pt-content.com/images/noimg.gif

And the after: :seizure:
https://static1.pt-content.com/images/noimg.gif
https://static1.pt-content.com/images/noimg.gif
https://static1.pt-content.com/images/noimg.gif
https://static1.pt-content.com/images/noimg.gif
https://static1.pt-content.com/images/noimg.gif
https://static1.pt-content.com/images/noimg.gif

[race-rodz-inc]

i dig the plate...pretty much sums it up for all of us

[andrewb70]

Before and after.

Andrew

[Streetking]

https://static1.pt-content.com/images/noimg.gif

Man, that is a sweet car!! :jawdrop:

SW

(Edited by derekf - too many folks quoting all the same pics makes for a tough read. Pulled all but the last pic out.)

[shmoov69]

:1st: That is good Kevin!! How true!!

[BuddyP]

LMAO!!!!!


The start of the project....

https://static1.pt-content.com/images/noimg.gif

5 years of working on the project and putting the money here...

https://static1.pt-content.com/images/pt/2005/07/toilet-1.jpg


Wishing it were done...

[FoxGranadaChuck]

https://static1.pt-content.com/images/noimg.gif



One REALLY sweet ride, man! And it's a Ford!!! COOL!!!

(Edited by derekf - too many folks quoting all the same pics makes for a tough read. Pulled all but the one pic out.)

[bnickel]

easy there, cloney already has a big head since his car has been in like 3 or 4 different mags already :rolleyes5

[Jagarang]

These are the oldest postable pics I have. I have some "roids"(Polaroids) at home that I might try to scan in after work.

These pictures, believe it or not, are after a few years of body/paint shop purgatory. You can see that even at this stage it's got a guide coat and lots of body works been done done.....
https://static1.pt-content.com/images/noimg.gif
https://static1.pt-content.com/images/noimg.gif

I guess the best looking after photo I've got is this one, so far......
https://static1.pt-content.com/images/noimg.gif

These photos span about....hmmmm....6 years!


These are the polaroids I scanned in from my find time in the jont(body shop pergatory)
https://static1.pt-content.com/images/noimg.gif
https://static1.pt-content.com/images/noimg.gif
https://static1.pt-content.com/images/noimg.gif
https://static1.pt-content.com/images/noimg.gif

[SatisTraction]

here it is were i found it (out driving a country road) click on them


https://static1.pt-content.com/images/noimg.gif (http://www.myonlineimages.com/Members/SatisTraction/images/102_1739.JPG)


test fitting the LS1

https://static1.pt-content.com/images/noimg.gif (http://www.myonlineimages.com/Members/SatisTraction/images/102_2086.JPG)

floors

https://static1.pt-content.com/images/noimg.gif (http://www.myonlineimages.com/Members/SatisTraction/images/102_2093.JPG)

https://static1.pt-content.com/images/noimg.gif (http://www.myonlineimages.com/Members/SatisTraction/images/102_2097.JPG)

drip rail

https://static1.pt-content.com/images/noimg.gif (http://www.myonlineimages.com/Members/SatisTraction/images/102_2202.JPG)

https://static1.pt-content.com/images/noimg.gif (http://www.myonlineimages.com/Members/SatisTraction/images/102_2205.JPG)

trunk

https://static1.pt-content.com/images/noimg.gif (http://www.myonlineimages.com/Members/SatisTraction/images/102_2267.JPG)

https://static1.pt-content.com/images/noimg.gif (http://www.myonlineimages.com/Members/SatisTraction/images/102_2264.JPG)

all the pics

http://www.myonlineimages.com/public.aspx?MemberID=9599

i have since added a DSE mini tub kit and have about 99% of the parts to complete it :)

i just need time :(

[69rs]

Way to save that one! It was likely destined to have a slow, rusty death.

[bobzdar]

A couple of before shots and a couple of during shots (had it on the road for about a year before I took it back apart).

[ryans67deuce]

here's mine before - hope the pics come out ok. wich i had picks of the 126 dirt-dobber nests i knocked out of it while tearing it down. they were everywhere.....

[Simplyrad]

Before:
https://static1.pt-content.com/images/noimg.gif
?

I remember when you first bought this car. I've called the site who did your bodywork in Escondido. Very reasonable prices. Anyway, sorry I am not posting any pics right now. I am ashamed that my car looks as it does. Although you can see what it first looked like when I got the car. Pics in my sig. My car is completly stripped right now.

[USAZR1]

Before:
https://static1.pt-content.com/images/noimg.gif

After:
https://static1.pt-content.com/images/noimg.gif